WINDS OF CHANGE: The Challenge of Modernity in the Middle East and North Africa (2019: Foreword; Chapters 6, 8, 11). (original) (raw)

WINDS OF CHANGE The Challenge of Modernity in the Middle East and North Africa Edited by Cyrus Rohani and Behrooz Sabet, ADVANCE INFORMATION 978-0-86356-388-1 Release date: November 7, 2019 (Advance publication: July 2019) Politics/Sociology/Middle East/Islam PB Royal 352 pp £25 TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface by Cyrus Rohani, Behrooz Sabet Foreword by Christopher Buck (pp. iii–viii) 1. Toward a discursive framework of change, Behrooz Sabet and Cyrus Rohani 2. Culture for openness and coexistence: How can we create it? Abdul Hamid Al-Ansari 3. Guiding principles of leadership for the 21st Century: An essay on leadership, Cyrus Rohani 4. Confronting Violence through Policies of Dialogue: Towards establishing a ‘citizenship that incorporates religious diversity’ in post-ISIS Era, Saad Salloum 5. Nonviolence and the challenges in the Middle East, Ramin Jahanbegloo 6. Religion of peace: Islamic principles of good governance, Christopher Buck (pp. 87–111) 7. Traditionalist and reformist discourses pertaining to Islamic revival, Armin Eschraghi 8. Defining Islamic social principles: a preamble, Christopher Buck (pp. 125–133) 9. Human rights in the Middle East, Nazila Ghanea 10. Reason in Islam: Taking back their own, Ian Kluge 11. “Be just”: Quranic ethics as benchmarks for Islamic law, Christopher Buck (pp. 168–181) 12. Education in the Middle East, Behrooz Sabet 13. Globalization and the Middle East: Reflections on a conceptual reorientation, Shahrzad Sabet 14. Environment and sustainability in the Middle East, Arthur Lyon Dahl 15. Connecting electronically to the public About the Contributors Behrooz Sabet holds a doctorate from the State University of New York at Buffalo. For more than twenty years, Dr Sabet has been intellectually engaged in research and writing on the intersection of religion, science and culture in the Middle East. He has been a university professor, academic dean and consultant on aspects of education and culture in the Middle East, and has translated and written extensively on religious, ethical, educational, philosophical and social themes. Dr Sabet is a renowned scholar of religion, contemporary political thought and movements in Iran, and the conceptual and historical origins of modernity and its impact on Islam and Middle Eastern societies Cyrus Rohani is an advisor on social and economic development, and a management and education consultant. He studied at the American University of Beirut and later received an MBA from Sacred Heart University, Connecticut, USA. He worked with Shell-Qatar and then with Qatar Petroleum (oil and gas). https://saqibooks.com/?post\_type=product&p=10902 ARABIC EDITION (Slightly different organization and content.) Winds of Change in the Middle East and North Africa: Crisis, Catharsis, and Renewal, ed. Behrooz Sabet and Gamal H. M. Hassan. Arabic translation of English original by Gamal Hassan (رياح التغيير: في الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا). Beirut: Dar al-Saqi, 2018. Pp. 17–24. (Release date: November 1, 2018.) ISBN: 9786140320994. Contributions by the present writer: Christopher Buck, “Introduction.” Arabic translation of English original by Gamal Hassan. Pp. 17–24. Idem, “Chapter 5: Religion of Peace: Islamic Principles of Good Governance.” Arabic translation of English original by Gamal Hassan. Pp. 133–166. Idem, “Chapter 6: Defining Islamic Social Principles: A Preamble.” Arabic translation of English original by Gamal Hassan. Pp. 167–180. Idem, “Chapter 7: ‘Be Just’: Quranic Ethics as Benchmarks for Islamic Law.” Arabic translation of English original by Gamal Hassan. Pp. 181–198.